After their mother’s death, her adult children gather in their family home to respect the funereal rite of Pa-sayim. Although they had originally thought she died of natural causes, thy…

Set in Mindanao, young Faisal, after both his parents were killed due to a ransom kidnapping, carries a bag filled with dollars and attempts to elude soldiers with his 2…

A disgraced cop (Zanjoe Marudo) tries to make amends with his wife by getting her pawned wedding ring back. But a robbery ensues in the pawnshop, and the robbers take…

A progressive rock band composed of privileged teenagers get arrested for drug possession, and are brought into the “Blue Room” where they must make the difficult choice between freedom or…

Laura accepts the role in this play to rebel against her mother. The director pushes her to bring out her vulnerability and anger, hoping they will show these emotions on…

A bad girl and a province boy found love in the state of being broken and in the process of healing.

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage…

Ataska and Dyessa Garcia will take you to a hot and crazy roadtrip perfect for the summer season. Two girl bestfriends and a young man take on a a journey…

A Filipina immigrant from Australia returns home to search for the remains of her parents, who worked in the nationalist movement as doctors and were murdered by a para-military group…

Anton and Erika started out as friends for five years and got into a romantic relationship for seven years. Anton is a commercial director while Erika is a former band…

A dark tale of fatal obsession and erotic passion, centers on a young student artist mesmerized by a beautiful and mysterious figure drawing model in his art school.

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs when their son goes missing.